[vile] Re: Covering vile in O'Reilly's "Learning the vi Editor"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Andy Oram wrote:

> (This is a resend, in case my original email got lost.)
>
> O'Reilly is updating this classic text and would like to make sure the
> chapter on vile is still correct. The new edition of the book will
> add several chapters on vim because of its popularity, but we want to
> keep what we have on other versions of vi up to date as well. Can you
> help us with vile?

yes - the content is largely correct, but of course there are additions.

> We're hoping that someone on the team can quickly approve the material
> in the chapter and update whatever needs updating. We don't want to
> expand the chapter, but preserve the scope it has now.

hmm - the version 6 was 1998 (most of the syntax highlighting and related 
code was after that point, for instance).  I made a list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vile_(editor)

which gives a rough outline.

> I've attached the source of the chapter (XML format) and viewable
> output in PostScript. The authors of the new edition are on the CC line.
>
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